Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1912 — BOYS BURN MAN TO DEATH [ARTICLE]

BOYS BURN MAN TO DEATH

Pour Gasoline and Whiskey on Clothing and Apply Match as a Joke. Memphis.—Mitchell Cabanlss, eighteen years old, and Clarence Shaw, aged ten years, were charged with a murder, to which they smilingly confesed when arrested. They explained that they had thought to give Robert M. Ellis only a scare and occasion for a quick plunge into the pool in Forrest Park when they poured a mixture of whisky and gasoline over his clothing while be slept on a park bench one night recently, and then applied a match. The whisky, Cafcaniss, just out of an asylum to which he had been committed for insanity, took from the victim’s pocket, and the other boy found the gasoline where a park employe had concealed it under bushes. The mixture flamed all right, but instead of seeing Ellis run for the lagoon, they saw policemen making frantic efforts to tear Ellis’ flaming clothing from him. He was dead, however. before the blaze went out